The juice is loose!
Captain America Kills Overseas
Captain America: The First Avenger has defied box office predictions by earning more overseas than in North America, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
Today in Space
Future NASA rocket to be most powerful ever built
Yeah, well lets see if it actually happens. I have a very strong feeling the U.S. government is hell bent on ending manned space flight.
Even the smallest early prototype of the rocket will have 10 percent more thrust than the Saturn V that propelled Apollo astronauts to the moon. When it is built to its fuller size, it will be 20 percent more powerful, Gerstenmaier said.
Read more about it HERE and HERE
Students building rocket for moon vehicle
Stuff like this just gets me excited, we need more people involved in space exploration\
Purdue University students are designing and building a rocket engine that might be used in a vehicle to land on the moon.
Read more about it HERE
Episode 3, We’re both dead men anyway
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Today in Space
Star blasts planet with X-rays
Heh, sucks to be that planet!!!
A nearby star is pummeling a companion planet with a barrage of X-rays a hundred thousand times more intense than the Earth receives from the Sun.
Read more about it HERE
Methane debate splits Mars community
Personally I believe there was life on mars, and almost certainly still is. Methane producing bacteria/algae would be a great explanation for this.
Observations over the last decade suggest that methane clouds form briefly over Mars during the summer months. The discovery has left many scientists scratching their heads, since it doesn't fit into models of the martian atmosphere.
Read more about it HERE
Dark clouds in space
Dust dust and more dust. Someone get a broom!
Infrared dark clouds (IRDCs) are dark patches in the sky seen against the continuous, bright infrared background produced by our galaxy. IRDCs are rich in molecules and relatively dense, cool gas, and they are natural sites for future star birth. Studies of IRDCs to date have emphasized those candidates that already have star formation underway within them, but astronomers are increasingly interested in probing younger, colder clouds to probe earlier stages in the star formation process.
Read more about it HERE
Herschel paints new story of galaxy evolution
Theories like this are always fun, but for now I think we should simply collect the data and analyze it and STOP trying to explain things we don't even have a good foundation to attempt to understand let alone unravel.
ESA's Herschel infrared space observatory has discovered that galaxies do not need to collide with each other to drive vigorous star birth. The finding overturns this long-held assumption and paints a more stately picture of how galaxies evolve.
Read more about it HERE
Space mission tells of Antarctic melt
New supernova remnant lights up
Awesome! I love that we keep seeing more and more of these, and are able to get good amounts of data from them as well as some cool images.
Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers are witnessing the unprecedented transition of a supernova to a supernova remnant, where light from an exploding star in a neighboring galaxy, the Large Magellanic Cloud, reached Earth in February 1987.
Read more about it HERE
Blah blah blah, while that's interesting this has happened time and time again throughout history I'm sure.
A team of researchers from The Australian National University has been selected from a competitive field to participate in NASA’s Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) Science Team.
Read more about it HERE
Russia sets first post-crash manned flight for November
Yay, maybe this is a sign we aren't abandoning space as I've suspected the past few months.
Russia on Tuesday scheduled its next manned space flight for November 12 after delaying previous missions because of a cargo craft's failure to reach the International Space Station.
Read more about it HERE
Moon 9-12-11
More lunar photography added to my MOON ALBUM links to the larger version in the ablum below each photo. Navigate to their individual page and click the photo on that page to see a larger version, or click the thumbnails below for the 100% full size image then when the larger image opens save it to your computer as you can't scroll in the photo viewer that the thumbnails launch. Yeah, I know it's complicated but deal with it!!!
http://www.ryanmercer.com/photos/the-moon/11256220
http://www.ryanmercer.com/photos/the-moon/11256302
http://www.ryanmercer.com/photos/the-moon/11256230
This week in space
New ‘super-Earth’ is 36 light-years distant, might hold water, astronomers say
This is awesome, I love-love-LOVE that the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy and other groups keep finding these extrasolar planets!
Astronomers on Monday announced the discovery of 50 new planets circling stars beyond the sun, including one “super-Earth” that is the right distance from its star to possibly have water.
The planet, dubbed HD85512b, circles an orange star somewhat smaller and cooler than our sun about 36 light-years away. The star, HD85512, is visible in the southern sky in the constellation Vela.The newly found planet circles this star every 59 days, putting it at the edge of the “habitable zone” where water could exist if atmospheric conditions were right.
The newly found planet circles this star every 59 days, putting it at the edge of the “habitable zone” where water could exist if atmospheric conditions were right.
Read more about it HERE and HERE
50 new exoplanets discovered by HARPS
Again like I said above 'I love-love-LOVE that the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy and other groups keep finding these extrasolar planets!' in this case HARPS at ESO’s La Silla Observatory.
Astronomers using ESO's world-leading exoplanet hunter HARPS have today announced a rich haul of more than 50 new exoplanets, including 16 super-Earths, one of which orbits at the edge of the habitable zone of its star. By studying the properties of all the HARPS planets found so far, the team has found that about 40% of stars similar to the Sun have at least one planet lighter than Saturn.
Read more about it HERE
Russia sets space crew's return after crash
This upstes me, we are basically abandoning the International Space Station.
Russia said Monday it would return three of the six international crew members on board the International Space Station to Earth later this week despite no immediate plans to send up their replacement.
Read more about it HERE
Astronomers find extreme weather on an alien world
I wonder why it has to be a storm, and perhaps not molten surface or even some sort of dyson sphere around it?
A University of Toronto-led team of astronomers has observed extreme brightness changes on a nearby brown dwarf that may indicate a storm grander than any seen yet on a planet. Because old brown dwarfs and giant planets have similar atmospheres, this finding could shed new light on weather phenomena of extra-solar planets.
Read more about it HERE
Deep space capsule comes alive with first weld
Is this a sign of hope of continued manned space flight and exploration?
Construction began this week on the first new NASA spacecraft built to take humans to orbit since space shuttle Endeavour left the factory in 1991, and marked a significant milestone in carrying out the ambitious exploration vision President Obama and Congress have laid out for the nation.
Read more about it HERE
